VE Day: Council duties under the Armed Forces Covenant
As we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Geoff Wild, Legal & Governance Consultant, looks at the duties of councils under the Armed Forces Covenant.
Reform vows ‘large-scale reversal’ of LTNs
19/05/2025 Reform UK has said it will axe low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in the councils it controls. |
Local transport in Wales gets £110m boost
11/04/2025 The Welsh Government has announced an investment of £110m to boost local transport. |
£300m active travel funding allocated
14/02/2025 The Government has confirmed £291m for active travel over the next two years as well as reforms to Active Travel England's (ATE) local funding model. |
‘Negative narrative’ on cycling harming health, travel boss warns
02/01/2025 Anti-cycling coverage in parts of the media is damaging public health, according to Chris Boardman, who leads government efforts to boost active travel in England. |
UK’s second ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout opens
10/12/2024 A roundabout that gives priority to cyclists and pedestrians has opened in Sheffield. |
Wales ‘a long way’ from active travel aims
19/09/2024 The Welsh Government is a long way from achieving the step-change in active travel it set out more than a decade ago, a spending watchdog has found. |
Liverpool warns 40,000 drivers caught by new cameras
14/08/2024 Liverpool City Council issued 40,000 warnings to drivers caught committing moving traffic violations by new cameras in the past six months. |
Manchester launches £15m clean-up drive
13/08/2024 Manchester City Council has unveiled plans to spend £15m revamping neighbourhoods and tackling waste. |
Why there is a real need to improve active travel infrastructure
10/07/2024 Peter Mildon, COO, VivaCity looks at active travel infrastructure and the key role data plays in delivering it. |
Wandsworth to ban riders ‘abandoning’ e-bikes in busy areas
24/06/2024 A London borough council has announced plans to ban riders leaving e-bikes on pavements in busy town centres. |
Lack of funding hindering road safety, councils say
19/06/2024 Limited funding and inadequate data are major barriers to road safety planning and measurement, local authorities have reported. |
Nottingham members back new Trent bridge
18/04/2024 Nottingham councillors have given the green light to what will be the first new crossing built over the River Trent in the city in more than 60 years. |
Green Liverpool projects win European funding
08/04/2024 Greening projects designed to complement new active travel routes in Liverpool will be funded by a European climate grant worth almost £80,000. |
Stoke councillors approve £5.4m transport plan
04/04/2024 A plan to invest more than £5.4m on improving roads and transport in Stoke-on-Trent has received a green light. |
Stop treating transport as a culture war, Government told
03/04/2024 The Prime Minister’s rhetoric ‘fabricating’ a war on motorists has been ‘incredibly unhelpful’ and does not reflect public opinion, according to a think-tank. |
Chancellor urged to provide funding certainty for urban transport
27/02/2024 Transport authorities have called on the Government to prioritise long-term funding certainty for public transport and active travel in city regions in next week’s Spring Budget. |
Councils support HS2 ‘green route’
26/02/2024 A new active travel route from Birmingham to Coventry along the HS2 line is a ‘no brainer’, West Midlands mayor Andy Street has said. |
Work begins on Oxford traffic filters
26/02/2024 Work has started on a number of streets in Oxford to prepare the way for six traffic filters as part of a trial aimed at reducing traffic in the city. |
Sheffield to invest £1m CAZ funds to improve air quality
15/02/2024 An estimated £1m raised through Sheffield’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ) will be used to improve air quality near schools, the city council says. |
Council chiefs call for powers to fight pavement parking ‘scourge’
12/02/2024 ‘Long-overdue’ powers to ban pavement parking should be extended to all areas across England now, the Local Government Association (LGA) has argued. |
Ministers did not stop LTNs receiving cash
06/02/2024 Officials have confirmed that the allocation of £200m for cycling and walking excluded low traffic neighbourhoods because no LTN bid matched funding criteria. |
London’s Regent Street set to become more cyclist friendly
01/02/2024 Regent Street is set to undergo a radical transformation as Westminster City Council seeks to make it more cyclist and pedestrian friendly. |
TfL hands boroughs another £80m for streets
31/01/2024 Transport for London (TfL) has announced up to £80.4m for boroughs to improve public transport, make walking and cycling safer and create new school streets. |
Edinburgh first to enforce pavement parking ban
29/01/2024 Edinburgh City Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to enforce a ban on pavement parking. |
First-of-kind tool links road casualties and deprivation
12/01/2024 Transport for London has launched a dashboard which shows how deprivation is linked to higher levels of death and injury on the capital’s roads. |
EVs only ‘part of the solution’, public health directors warn
03/01/2024 Directors of public health have welcomed the Government’s zero emission vehicle mandate but warned electric vehicles are ‘just part of the solution’. |
BCP Council extends successful bike scheme
02/01/2024 A bike scheme in Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) Council area has been extended for five more years. |
New partnership helps local authorities plan active travel and low carbon projects
20/11/2023 Esri UK has announced that AppyWay has joined its partner programme, giving customers easy access to digital kerbside data. Lambeth Council among first users. |
Councillors ‘powerless and penniless’ on clean air
09/11/2023 Elected members do not believe that councils have the powers or budgets to make meaningful change on air quality, research has found. |
MPs criticise ‘disappointingly slow’ progress on active travel
03/11/2023 The Government is not on track to meet its active travel targets, with funding uncertainty hampering councils’ efforts, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said. |
The case for low-traffic neighbourhoods
16/08/2023 Tanya Braun, Living Streets makes the case for low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and argues for an area-by-area approach to reducing the impact of traffic. |
Transport planners write to PM in defence of LTNs
09/08/2023 The Transport Planning Society (TPS) has written to the PM in defence of low traffic neighbourhoods in the wake of the Government's push-back. |
Pedestrian crossings lights could stay green longer
25/07/2023 Active Travel England (ATE) is considering introducing new guidance for councils that could increase the amount of time people have to cross the road. |
Councillors’ LTN tweets had ‘no effect’ on elections
17/07/2023 London councillors’ tweets about low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) did not affect whether they held their seats at the 2022 elections, a study has found. |
Funding allocations for active travel prescription trial announced
07/07/2023 The funding allocations for the 11 local authorities taking part in a £13.9m walking and cycling prescription trial have been announced. |
Oxfordshire unveils £200,000 air pollution plan
16/06/2023 Oxfordshire County Council has unveiled a £200,000 plan to cut air pollution which it says is the 'biggest environmental risk to public health'. |
Haringey to treble number of School Streets
16/06/2023 Haringey councillors have signed off on a plan that will almost treble the number of School Streets in the borough to 61. |
Active travel hampered by 'low capability and ambition'
07/06/2023 Council chiefs have defended active travel measures after auditors found more than half of councils had 'low capability and ambition' to deliver projects. |
Birmingham council launches air quality fund
02/06/2023 A funding scheme for cycle racks, school traffic exclusion plans and other measures has been launched to help improve air quality in Birmingham. |
Active Travel England to consult on large planning applications
01/06/2023 Local planning authorities will now have to consult with Active Travel England (ATE) on all large planning applications. |
LTNs blocked from £200m active travel cash
22/05/2023 Department for Transport has announced the £200m fourth round of the Active Travel Fund and revealed it had blocked low traffic neighbourhood schemes funding. |
Holyrood consults on 20-minute neighbourhoods
28/04/2023 People in Scotland are being asked for their views on how to improve the planning system. |
Active Light
12/04/2023 Newport City Council chose Thorn Lighting's Dark Sky-approved Urba bollard to support its Active Travel deployment in Tredegar Park. |
